Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins acting Oscar after five nominations
Mark Rylance, Sam Smith and Jenny Beavan among British winners
Mad Max: Fury Road wins most Oscars collecting six prizes
Spotlight wins best picture
Brie Larson wins best actress, Alicia Vikander wins best supporting actress
Keily Smith
Entertainment reporter
Big Short director Adam McKay, who won best screenplay with Charles Randolph, praised Chris Rock’s opening monologue.
“I thought it was great. It was jabbing at Hollywood but also dealing with an era of how we deal with diversity – and it was really funny."
Image source, AFPQuote MessageI share this with our fabulous crew and cast. Eddie [Redmayne], thank you for being the best acting partner, I could never have done it without you, you raised my game. To my parents - thank you for giving me the belief anything can happen, even though I never would have believed this.
Keily Smith
Entertainment reporter in Los Angeles
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy earlier said on the red carpet that he wished the screenplay category wasn’t first as he’d like to have the chance to settle in a bit – too bad, up you go.
Image source, AFPBritish hopeful Sam Smith has performed the first of the night's nominated songs, The Writing's On The Wall from Spectre.
Will he repeat Adele's success?
I think Eddie Redmayne should win, if The Oscars is about acting. If there’s one award called “Severe Hardship Award” then I think that should go to Leo.
We’re after acting, the techniques to bring a character alive, and Eddie Redmayne has once again, done that in The Danish Girl.
Leo’s role is almost all about pain and struggling and suffering, and most of the time his face is screwed up and ½ hidden behind the pelt, so we can easily tell he’s under extreme harsh weather and gone through much agony….and that’s it. Acting? Guess Eddie’s much more intense in The Danish Girls.
If Leo gets it this year, I think it’s got to do with "sympathy" to soothe his unsuccessful attempt over the last 5 years.
Mary Chan
I hope Leo will be getting an Oscar tonight, but I hope the announcement doesn’t happen after midnight, at least so he can celebrate it every year rather than every four years. #leapyear #oscarforleo
Steve Alani
Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock and Tracey Morgan have all appeared in a spoof montage of the films which didn't feature black actors and actresses.
It got some pretty embarrassed sounding applause.
While we're on a break, here's nominee Sam Smith on his performance tonight...
Singer Sam Smith and writing partner Jimmy Napes are up for the best original song Oscar.
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Director Adam Mckay
It's the first Oscar and nomination for screenwriter Charles Randolph and first win for Adam McKay who is also nominated for best director.
Quote MessageWe made this film for all those journalists who hold those accountable and for the survivors - we have to make sure this never happens again.
Tom McCarthy
It's the first Oscar for Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy and the third nomination for director McCarthy.
Chris Rock also addressed sexism at the Oscars.
Quote MessageThey said you can't just ask women what dress they're wearing. They ask the men more because men are always wearing the same thing. If George Clooney wore a turquoise suit with a swan coming out of his ass, people would saying 'What are you wearing?'
Quote MessageThis is the world's craziest Oscars because of all this controversy because of no black nominees. People keep telling me 'Chris you should quit' - how come it's always unemployed people telling me to quit? So I thought about it really hard, but I thought they're going to hold it anyway and the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart.
Quote MessageIn the in memoriam package, it will just be black people shot by the cops on the way to the movies.
Quote MessageIf you want black nominees every year, you need black categories, like best black friend... 'and the winner for the 18th year in a row is Wanda Sykes'.
Quote MessageThere weren’t black nominees in the '60s – why didn’t we protest then? Because we had more important things to protest about.
Image source, ReutersAs promised, Chris Rock is addressing this year's diversity controversy in his opening monologue.
Quote MessageI counted at least 15 people in that montage - I'm here at the Academy Awards - otherwise known as the white People's Choice Awards. If they nominated the host, I wouldn't get this job. You'd all be watching Neil Patrick Harris now.
The ceremony is beginning with a montage of this year's most talked about films.
Sam Smith, Kerry Washington and Room star Jacob Tremblay have all been Instagramming ahead of the ceremony.
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Some clever number crunchers have mapped where all the acting category winners and nominees were born - all 1,332 of them since 1929.
Unsurprisingly, the US has spawned the most nominees and winners at 1,116, but the UK comes second with 287.
See the animated map, external to see if an Oscar winner was born near you.
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